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The Chosen Few - A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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The Chosen Few - A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Hardcover)
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The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in
the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated
in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest A single company
of US paratroopers--calling themselves the "Chosen Few"--arrived in
eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win the hearts and minds
of the remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's
reach into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next fifteen
months in a desperate struggle, living under almost continuous
attack, forced into a slow and grinding withdrawal, and always
outnumbered by Taliban fighters descending on them from all sides.
Month after month, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, and
machine-gun fire poured down on the isolated and exposed
paratroopers as America's focus and military resources shifted to
Iraq. Just weeks before the paratroopers were to go home, they
faced their last--and toughest--fight. Near the village of Wanat in
Nuristan province, an estimated three hundred enemy fighters
surrounded about fifty of the Chosen Few and others defending a
partially finished combat base. Nine died and more than two dozen
were wounded that day in July 2008, making it arguably the
bloodiest battle of the war in Afghanistan. The Chosen Few would
return home tempered by war. Two among them would receive the Medal
of Honor. All of them would be forever changed.
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